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2020: Community Environment and Health
2021: Structural Racism
2018: Solutions for Better Health Care Delivery in Rural America
2016: Early Childhood and Health
2020: Families and Child Health
2018: Addressing Social and Economic Determinants to Prevent Chronic Conditions and to Promote Health, Wellbeing and Equity in Rural America
2017: Youth Development Approaches to Prevent Violence and Promote Health
2022: Structural Racism
2019: Community Development and Health
2019: Clinical practice, social services, and health
2017: Individual and Community Resilience

California

"Get the Lead Out!:" Promoting Community Resilience in the Face of Environmental Injustice

Team Members

Jill Johnston, PhD
Bhavna Shamasunder, PhD
mark! Lopez, MA

East Los Angeles

A data-driven study of death in Los Angeles under police custody

Team Members

Helen M. Jones
Nicholas E. Shapiro
Terence D. Keel

Los Angeles, CA

A holistic environmental health approach to promoting health, equity, and water security in one Alaskan Native Village

Team Members

Clarita Lefthand-Begay, PhD
Maya Magarati, PhD
Terri Parr

Akiak Native Community

A New Vision for Health Care: Centering the Leadership and Expertise of Immigrants to Address Social and Structural Barriers to Health

Team Members

Joe Sammen, MPH
Karen Albright, PhD, MSW
Maria de Jesus Diaz-Perez, PhD

A Place-Based Approach to Early Childhood Wellness in Cincinnati

Team Members

Jamie-Lee Morris, BA
Farrah Jacquez, PhD
Michael Topmiller, PhD

Cincinnati, Ohio

A Study of the Influence of Housing Instability on Health and Well-Being for Latinx Families in Washoe County, NV

Team Members

Jessie Clark, PhD
Julie Lucero, PhD, MPH
Victoria Rios

Northern Nevada

Addressing Mental, Physical, and Economic Health of FL Farm Communities

Team Members

Gülcan Önel, PhD
Jeanne-Marie Stacciarini, PhD, RN
Antonio J. Tovar-Aguilar, PhD

Addressing the Impact of Rural Poverty, Opioid Misuse, and Partner Violence Victimization in Vermont

Team Members

Diane Kinney, MS
Emily F. Rothman, ScD
Rebecca Stone, PhD, MPH

Addressing upstream factors that promote youth violence

Team Members

Kristine Madsen, MD
Phillip W. Graham, DrPH, MPH
Regina Jackson

Oakland, California

Adolescent Mental Health Among Rural African Americans

Team Members

Dionne Smith Coker-Appiah, PhD, MAED
Heidi Bonner, PhD
Mysha Wynn, MA

Eastern North Carolina

Team Bloomington IN

Advancing Racial and Ethnic Equity in Health Care Access: COVID Pandemic Medicaid Changes

Team Members

Elaine Hernandez
David Craig
Ivan Hicks

Bloomington, IN

Advancing Racial Justice Within the Movement to End Gender-Based Violence

Team Members

Jessica Owens-Young
Jane Palmer

Affordable Housing for People with HIV

Team Members

Billy Kirkpatrick, PhD
Safiya George, PhD
George Mugoya, PhD

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Aligning health and built environment assessment frameworks in community development

Team Members

Traci Rider, PhD
Aaron Hipp, PhD
Kia Baker

An Examination of Organizing for Equity and Health in Shaw and Orange

Team Members

Derek Hyra, PhD
Mindy Fullilove, MD
Dominic Moulden

Orange, New Jersey & Shaw, Washington, DC

Michigan

An exploration of methods for measuring the impact of culturally grounded interactions on the health and well-being of Native children

Team Members

Jessica Barnes-Najor, PhD
Ann Cameron, AA
Christine Sims, PhD

Justice for Native Children

Applying Developmental Neuroscience to Incarcerated Adolescents

Team Members

Matthew Aalsma, PhD
Abby Hunt, MSW
Mary Ott, MD, MA

Assessing structural racism's effects on patient health in a federally qualified health center

Team Members

Eboni Winford
Jennifer M. Jabson Tree
Judson C. Laughter

Building blocks and tearing down fences: creating integrated and equitable systems of care for rural communities

Team Members

Elizabeth Baker, PhD, MPH
Janice Ballard, MPH
Carissa van den Berk-Clark, PhD, MSW

Building financial literacy, community assets, and health: a model for equitable community development

Team Members

Marisela Gomez, MD, PhD, MPH, MS
Sabriya Linton, PhD, MPH
Dorcas Gilmore, JD

Team Iowa

Building Political Voice for Latino Health: Strategies for Overcoming Voter Suppression in Iowa

Team Members

Julianna Pacheco
Nicholas Salazar
Nicole Novak

Building Power for Community Health: A Study of Tenant Organizing in Syracuse, NY

Team Members

Palmer Harvey
Jamila Michener
Gretchen Purser

Centering Survivor Voices to Improve Medical-Community Partnerships Addressing Intimate Partner Violence

Team Members

Melissa Dichter, PhD, MSW
Ashlee Murray, MD, MPH
Jessica Palardy, MSW

Philadelphia, PA

Centering the lived experience of Head Start families to investigate intersections of structural racism, rurality, and childhood obesity

Team Members

Felecia L. Lucky
Lilanta Joy Bradley
Joyce (Jen) E. Nickelson

Wilcox County, AL

Civic Action for Refugee Empowerment: Building Healthy Families in Changing Transnational Context

Team Members

Anjali Dutt, PhD
Brandi Blessett, PhD
Bryan Wright, PhD

Community Health in Washington, DC and Prince George's County, MD

Team Members

Thespina Yamanis, PhD, MPH
Taryn Morrissey, PhD
Catalina Sol, MPH

DC & Prince George's County, Maryland

Georgia

Community-Based Approaches to Improve Behavioral Health Services for Youth in GA

Team Members

Janet Cummings, PhD
Nicoleta Serban, PhD, MS
Nikki Raymond, MBA, MS

Comparison of Two Historically African-American Neighborhoods in Houston, TX

Team Members

Felicia Jackson, MA
Quianta Moore, JD, MD
Rachel Kimbro, PhD, MA

Comprehensive Early Childhood Parenting Supports & Children's Health & Development

Team Members

Chris Wimer, PhD
Allyson Crawford, MA

New York, New York

Team Atlanta Grove Park

Creating Margin for the Marginalized: Evaluating A Multilevel Strategy to Address Effects of Systemic Racism in Housing on Health

Team Members

Erin Bradley
Linda Baffo

Decarceration Fellowship

Team Members

Soledad McGrath
Andrew Papachristos
Ciera Bates-Chamberlain

Chicago, Illinois

Dismantling structural racism in health policies for Latinx immigrants in Montana

Team Members

Elizabeth Aghbashian
David Claudio
Sally Moyce

Empowering Rural Residents for Environmental Action

Team Members

Erin Haynes, DrPH, MS
Amanda Kiger, BA
Lydia Rose, PhD

Energy Insecurity and Public Health: Going Further through Cross-Sector Collaboration

Team Members

Lauren Ross, PhD, MA
Vjollca Berisha, MD
Diana Hernandez

Enhancing the Arkansas Birthing Project through Technology

Team Members

Sarah Rhoads, PhD, DNP
Zenobia Harris, DNP, MPH, BSN
Hari Eswaran, PhD

Little Rock, Arkansas

Equitable Food Futures: Activating Community Memory, Story, and Imagination in Rural Mississippi

Team Members

Mina Para Matlon, JD, MA
Erica Kohl-Arenas, PhD, MS
Carlton Turner

Evaluating the Impact of Health Care Reforms on Behavioral Health Care Providers in Upstate NY

Team Members

Deceil Moore, LCSW
Matthew Spitzmueller, PhD, LCSW
Lynn Warner, PhD, MSW, MPP

Upstate New York

Examining guaranteed-income's potential to advance health equity

Team Members

Scott Nolen
Stacia West
Lorraine T. Dean

Examining the effects of carceral exposure on health services use: Implications for policy and service coordination

Team Members

Bruce Reilly, JD
Andrea Armstrong, JD, MPA
Ashley Wennerstrom, PhD, MPH

Fostering Inter-Disciplinary Research-Practice Partnerships to Enhance Father's Capacities to Promote Child Well-being

Team Members

Antonio Garcia, PhD, MSW
David Cozart, MTH
Rafael Pérez-Figueroa, MD, MPH

Groundwater Contamination and Health Equity in a Deindustrialized Midwestern Community

Team Members

Sa Liu, PhD, MPH, CIH
Deborah Corcoran, BSB
Jennifer Johnson, PhD

Group Mentoring Model to Address Youth Violence Prevention

Team Members

Vanya Jones, PhD, MPH
Michelle Becote-Jackson, MS
Leticia Ryan, MD, MPH

Baltimore, Maryland

Team North Philadelphia

Growing Freedom Down North: Addressing Intersecting Health Inequities through Community Gardening in North Philadelphia

Team Members

Ajima Olaghere
Muhammad Abdul-Hadi
Celeste Winston

Philadelphia, PA

Harnessing the Potential of Pharmacists as Family Planning Providers in CA

Team Members

Sally Rafie, PharmD, BCPS, APh, NCMP
Erin Garner-Ford, MA
Anu Manchikanti Gomez, PhD, MSc

Central Valley and Southern California

Health Effects After Renovation of Public Housing Renovation in San Francisco

Team Members

Irene Yen, PhD
Susan Neufeld, MA
Leslie Dubbin, PhD

San Francisco, California

Health Impacts of Housing Code Enforcement

Team Members

Christina Stacy, MA, PhD
Steve Barlow, MA, JD
Joseph Schilling, JD, BA

Memphis, Tennessee

Health Impacts of Mass Incarceration on Indiana's Children

Team Members

Angela Tomlin, PhD
Shoshanna Spector, BA
Karen Ruprecht, PhD

Identifying practice-based strategies to promote mental health among LGBTQ+ youth of color in the context of structural racism and anti-LGBTQ+ stigma

Team Members

Shoba Ramanadhan
Davine Holness

Team California

Identifying Solutions for Equity-centered, Data-driven, and Community-led First Response Systems in California

Team Members

Kristina Gelardi
Shani Buggs
Susan Perez

Improve the Road Ahead for Marginalized Girls

Team Members

Sarah Veele, PhD, MPH
Ann Muno, MSW
Arina Gertseva, PhD

Washington State

Improving Equity in Birth Outcomes

Team Members

Rebecca Polston, CPM, LM
Rachel Hardeman, PhD, MPH
Katy Kozhimannil, PhD, MPA

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Improving Health Among Youth in Rural Appalachia

Team Members

Sara Anderson, PhD, MA
Kelli Caseman, MA
Simon F. Haeder, PhD

Improving Juvenile Indigent Defense and Health through Holistic Representation

Team Members

Tammy Hughes, PhD
Tiffany Sizemore, JD
Jeffrey Shook, PhD, JD

Increasing Housing Stability

Team Members

Mina Silberberg, PhD
Donna Biederman, DrPH, MN, RN
Emily Carmody, LCSW

Michigan

Integrating social determinants of health into clinical services for the Arab American and immigrant community

Team Members

Carlos Mendes de Leon, PhD
Minal Patel, PhD, MPH
Madiha Tariq, MPH

Investigating Community Social Action to Identify, Remediate, Evaluate, and Sustain an Environmental Justice Initiative

Team Members

Stephen Sills, PhD
Sandra Echeverria, PhD, MPH
Kathleen Colville, MSW, MSPH

Investing in Water and Waste-Water Systems to Reduce Health and Economic Inequalities in the Rural South

Team Members

Ines Polonius, MA, MBA
Corianne Scally, PhD, MSP
Alison Davis, PhD

It's a Dad Thing: Fathers as Powerful Agents of Change in Reducing Disparities in Maternal Mortality in the District of Columbia

Team Members

Sherrie Flynt Wallington, PhD
Y. Tony Yang, ScD, LLM, MPH
Terrance Staley

Texas

Joppa Environmental Equity Project: Examining the impact of air pollution on community health and redressing environmental racism

Team Members

Natalie Johnson, PhD
Ping Ma, PhD
Jim Schermbeck

Juveniles at risk

Team Members

Clark Peters, PhD, JD
Kelli Canada, PhD, MSW
Rachel Jones, MEd, LPC

Boone County, Missouri

Leveraging Greener Schoolyards for Better Health

Team Members

Pooja Tandon, MD, MPH, AB
Kathleen Wolf, PhD, MLA
Cary Simmons, MEM

Making Baton Rouge Better

Team Members

Luvica Lue Russell, ThD
Revathi Hines, PhD
Leslie Grover, PhD

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Making the Mandate Work: Reducing Disparities by Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Reporting Elder Abuse to Adult Protective Services

Team Members

Patricia Kimball, MS
Stuart Lewis, MD
Zach Gassoumis, PhD

Maternity Ward Closures in Rural New Hampshire

Team Members

Timothy Fisher, MD
Stacey McMorrow, PhD
Sarah Benatar, PhD

Mind your Money

Team Members

Luisa Blanco, PhD, MBA
April Thames, PhD
Isaias Hernandez

Los Angeles, CA

Model for Violence Prevention and Health Promotion

Team Members

Charnelle Green, MS
Brian Sims, PhD
Dawn Henderson, PhD

Guilford County, North Carolina

Mokiha: Restoring Water and Prosperity Back to Indigenous Communities

Team Members

V. Lu`ukia Nakanelua
Mapuana Antonio
Troy Andrade

Neighboring with Intention: Strengthening Communities with Trauma-Informed Care

Team Members

Anne Rufa, PhD
Evelyn Coker, LCSW
Harold Pollack, PhD

Not One More: Violence at the intersection of structural racism and transphobia & the imperative to value the lives of trans women of color

Team Members

Akira T. Jackson
Erin Wilson
Sean Arayasirikul

San Francisco, California

Opening Doors for All

Team Members

Yumiko Aratani, PhD
Irán Barrera, PhD
Sabrina Kelley, MPH

Fresno, California

Team North Carolina

Overcoming Structural Racism in Housing Stability and Wealth-building: Laying the foundation for community health and wellbeing

Team Members

Danielle Spurlock
Allison C. De Marco
Donna M. Carrington

Chapel Hill, NC

California

Participatory Assessment of Health Equity Impacts through the Implementation of the Community Air Monitoring and Management

Team Members

Jonathan London, PhD, MCP, BA
Nayamin Martinez, MPH
Ricardo Cisneros

San Joaquin Valley

Perceptions of Racism and Health among African Americans in Rural Western NC

Team Members

Ameena Batada, MPH, DrPH
Jill Fromewick, SM, ScD
JéWana Grier-McEachin, BA

Western North Carolina

Policies and Practices Supporting Child Welfare and Health

Team Members

Lina Svedin, PhD
Kristine Campbell, MD
Tonya Myrup, MSW

Team Philadelphia

Power Tools: A Youth Focused Community Engaged Research Approach

Team Members

Kimberlee Douglas
Russell McIntire

Promoting Maternal Health Equity through Collaborative Community Partnerships: Teaming doulas, providers and families to create birth equity

Team Members

Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha, PhD, MPH
Audra Meadows, MD MPH
Christina Gebel, MPH

Promoting Resilience among Youth Exposed to Violence

Team Members

Jannette Berkley-Patton, PhD
Paige O’Connor
Briana Woods-Jaeger, PhD

Kansas City, Missouri

Promoting Youth Resilience, Health, and Safety through Mindfulness

Team Members

Sharon Alston, PhD, MSW
Ivy Hylton, PhD, MSW, LCSW, NCRJT
Michelle Chatman, MA, PhD

Team St. Louis

Prostate cancer patient, healthcare provider, and healthcare system perspectives on equity in the cancer care delivery system in St. Louis

Team Members

Reginald Tucker-Seeley
Robin Wright-Jones
Darrell Hudson

Rebuilding Indigenous Food Systems in Rural Native Hawaii

Team Members

Ted Radovich, PhD
Jane Chung-Do, DrPH, MPH
Ilima Ho-Lastimosa, MSW

Waimānalo, Hawai’i

Regional Expansion of Treatment for Addiction in Corrections via Telehealth

Team Members

Ben Udochi, MHR
Femina P. Varghese, PhD
Nickolas Zaller, PhD

REMOVE: A community-based intervention to advance environment justice and health

Team Members

Dajun Dai, PhD
Gwen Smith
Na'Taki Osborne Jelks, PhD, MPH

Removing obstacles to HIV prevention for black women in Orange County, Florida

Team Members

Andrea Dunn
J. Richelle Joe
Shan-Estelle Brown

Orange County, FL

Researching Equity and Community Health (REACH) Project

Team Members

Alton Burton
Idethia Shevon Harvey, DrPH, MPH
Whitney Garney, PhD, MPH

Resilience Among LGBTQ+ People in South Texas

Team Members

Phillip W. Schnarrs, PhD
Amy L. Stone, PhD
Robert L. Salcido, Jr.

San Antonio, Texas

Resilience and Food Security in Black Belt Alabama

Team Members

Marcus Bernard, MS, PhD
Veronica Womack, PhD, MPA
Tracy McCurty, JD

Black Belt, Alabama

Shifting From Restorative to Transformative Justice in Baltimore's Schools: Co-Developing Strategies that Center Anti-Racism to Promote School Health

Team Members

Dylan Jackson
Richard Lofton
Larry Simmons

Strength and Healing on the Fond du Lac Reservation

Team Members

Joseph P. Gone, PhD
Nikki Crowe, BSW
Melissa Walls, MA, PhD

Fond du Lac Reservation

The Effects of Hyper-Surveillance on the Health and Wellbeing of Justice-Involved Families: A Structural Violence Perspective.

Team Members

Alana Gunn, PhD, MPP, AM
Sage Kim, PhD
Linda Weatherspoon, BA

The Impact of Precarious Work Schedules on Early Childhood Health

Team Members

Julio López Varona, JD
Michele Kilpatrick, JD
Julia Henly, PhD

Bridgeport, Connecticut

Transforming the Puerto Rico WIC Program

Team Members

Cristina Palacios, MSc, PhD
Alexandra Reyes, MEd, RDN
Maribel Campos, MD, MBA, MSc FAAP

Understanding and responding to the determinants of weathering in central Brooklyn Black youth ages 18 to 24

Team Members

Tawandra Rowell-Cunsolo, PhD
Rahwa Haile, PhD, MA
Anthonine Pierre

Central Brooklyn

Undoing structural racism and promoting community wellbeing through economic justice

Team Members

Tiffany L. Young
Cara Pugh
Kia L. Davis

Using Native Knowledge and Science to Heal Trauma

Team Members

Sara F. Waters, PhD
Alvina Marris, PhD
Myra Parker, PhD

Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (Washington state)

Team Port St. Joe

Using Transformative Scenario Planning to Address Structural Racism in Health in North Port St. Joe, Florida

Team Members

Kwame Owusu-Daaku
Christian Wells
Dannie Bolden

North Port St. Joe, FL

Using victim compensation for structural reparations

Team Members

Myles Francis
Franklin N. Cosey-Gay
Tanya L. Zakrison

Chicago, IL (South Side)

Violence Prevention and Health Promotion Empowerment Program for Black Girls

Team Members

Kathi Elliott, DNP, MSW, CRNP
Sara Goodkind, PhD, MSW
Britney Brinkman, PhD

Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Wichoabdeza: Trauma-informed policy change to improve health in a tribal community

Team Members

Elizabeth Rink, PhD, MSW
Monica Skewes, PhD
Adriann Ricker, MPH

Young, unsheltered, and in harm's way

Team Members

Colette Auerswald, MD, MS, FSAHM
Sherilyn Adams, MS
Marguerita Lightfoot, PhD

San Francisco, California